Where was fables first first started?

Question

there are alot of fables all over the world! i am just wondering where it was started.

Answer 1

The word fable derives from the Latin word fabula, which originally meant about the same as the Greek mythos; like mythos, it came to mean a fictitious or untrue story. Myths, in contrast, are not presented as fictitious or untrue.

Fables, like some myths, feature personified animals or natural objects as characters. Unlike myths, however, fables almost always end with an explicit moral message, and this highlights the characteristic feature of fables--namely, that they are instructive tales that teach morals about human social behavior. Myths, by contrast, tend to lack this directly didactic aspect, and the sacred narratives that they embody are often hard to translate into direct prescriptions for action in everyday human terms.

Answer 2

The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree[3] less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country. Fables that originated in India were carried into Persia and from there spread into Greece and the Western world from the fourth century BCE. The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a Greek slave of the 6th century BCE. When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince "Alexander," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of "myth" that Aesop had introduced to the "sons of the Hellenes" had been an invention of "Syrians" from the time of "Ninos" (personifying Nineveh to Greeks) and Belos ("ruler")[4]. Several parallel animal fables in Sumerian and Akkadian are among those that E. Ebeling introduced to modern Western readers[5]; there are comparable fables from Egypt's Middle Kingdom[6], and Hebrew fables such as the "king of trees" in Book of Judges 9 and "the thistle and the cedar tree" in II Kings 14:9.[7] Many other familiar ones include “The Crow and the Pitcher,” “The Hare and the Tortoise,” and “The Lion and the Mouse.”

Answer 3

at the very core of human evolution. It started when man could begin to speak...at the very moment man had a story to tell..that is the moment the fables started...and since no one can agree when man came to this piont in evolution, we really cant say when the fable came to be.

Answer 4

Greece

Answer 5

It all started after the creation of man-kind.................................